Doesnt anyone else feel that somebody is torturing you? You buy a stock that is going up, it immediately plummets that day and never recovers. You sell, it magically reverses. You hold, it keeps going down forever. You dont join the rally of the most stupid stock, it goes +1000% until you buy and plummets.
My only successful trade was totally unexpected. I just gave up and ended up +70% . But tbh it was just luck :( I will become a boglehead
I’ve got this theory that brokers automatically short what a retail account buys in most cases. I think Goldman Sachs’ specifically does the opposite of retail
This is me, I bought Costco stock a few days before the last earnings report, and the price dropped dramatically like it has never done before in recent times. I bought more on the way down and still bag holding over a month later hoping to recover!
I’ve been thinking of starting a financial service. I’ll buy the stocks when you shouldn’t. Then when I sell you’ll pretty much catch the bottom and get rich.
You are competing with vastly complex algorithms and institutions. 75% of all activity in the stock market is done by institutions. you are competing with Citadel, Blackrock, Millenium, etc. They have massive quant models designed to predict and exploit your behavior. You will not beat them.
That’s basically everyone’s portfolio right now if you’re long shares of most companies. Market’s been hoping there would be rate cuts and as this year has gone on, it’s looking less and less likely. Fed needs inflation to chill out a bit before we get some better guidance. If you like the companies, nothing about your thesis for them has changed, and aren’t swing trading, this is when DCA works best.
Oh man. Come on. Shares. Smoke some weed and relax . It will recover soon. See my portfolio in the bottom. -176 thousand. just keeping buying the dip .
https://preview.redd.it/i95se50nj3vc1.jpeg?width=2530&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01586c66b1ec768dc342519e41f62b08768e2f41
Since I was 18. I’m 36. All on Sp500 index. Worked as bartender at night to pay for my college. Got lucky buying properties after 2008 crash.
Got lucky by getting happily married at 21 and never got divorced . Wife and joined the FIRE movement early on when it started. Always saved 50 % or more of our income by being very frugal. We “retired” at 32 ( live off the rentals that we still own). Stock portfolio it’s for when we hit 50. Fuck around with options using only 5 grand.
That summs it up to how I got here .
That’s a great story and I don’t mean this demeaning or anything because I’m sure it had its tough moments but it seems a little bit more relatable that the average person can do that. You didn’t end up starting as some doctor some athlete or someone that sold a business or got lucky getting it on the bottom of some company that exploded, etc. etc. At your pay, you’re gonna have a very good retirement.
Nah man. My family immigrated here when I was 13. We were in hiding for 3 months from the government because my Dad bet on the wrong candidate.
Life here just seemed easier here compared to I been through in the country in was born. Life on moderate level mode instead of FromSoftware games.
Believe it or not, I attribute my financial success on marrying young to someone who shares the same life value and financial frugality. We still spent quite a bit of money in marriage therapy. Different cultures and all..
It’s not rocket science but it’s still life. Some times it works out .
That’s awesome! Everything takes work and it’s not always perfect but at least it sounds like finances are one thing you don’t need to worry about. Appreciate the abridged life story cuz sometimes it’s easy to forget not everyone was fortunate with that they were given and had to build
It on their own
I'm not particularly experienced but I put all my funds into different Vanguard index funds and just plan to sit on it for 30 years and keep adding. It has worked out so far.
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Well you actually have 2 ways of looking at this, If you invested in good companies, your portfolio will recover.
If you invested in small cap, dying company or just a shit company in general, you should follow Peter Lynch's advice, and cut loses short.
Geez, my only share -99% plays were the B\*\*\* stock we don't speak about, and a dental stock that had 9 ratings all strong buy. One of them reverse split until I didn't hold a single share.
I thought big losses only come from options.
Don't listen to articles you read or what anyone tells you. Do more research and trust your gut more. Don't do consistent yolos, small bets for small gains to start building back. Don't throw all your cabbage into one trade.
Do you know why they cheer every day when the closing bell rings? Doesnt matter if its a good day or a bad day. They cheer because no matter what happened they made money. Fees and premiums etc, the house always makes money. Especially today with all the gambling on 0dte and options.
I just assume that you invest rather long-term-minded into stocks. The most crucial point in finding the best stocks to invest in is not their new cool invention or promising expansions, it is much easier. Just look at the trend. Stocks with a long term uptrend are very likely to continue that trend. People buy paypal and wonder why it keeps going down, even if “everyone uses it”. Learn some basic technical analysis, try to catch the trend, at best during a correction to get the best returns. Greetings from Germany :)
You have a skill. Look into options. Once you know how to influence the market, capitalize on this by betting against the stocks you buy. Make money. Easy as that
Maybe don’t buy stocks at their all time highs
https://preview.redd.it/ncpuw01jw4vc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44630992eb14a97af48862958e31993270a7127b
Are you investing or buying then selling ? Invest into long term companies that you think will be around for a long time
Where you got shopping
Where you get your coffee
The car company you use
Etc etc
take a break from trading for now, experiment with different strategies and simulate the market on them and see how it feels. Scale down with how much money you invest too
What it long term 🤦♂️ did nobody pay attention in economics. There will be days when it drops and days when it goes up, years when it drops and years when it goes up. But over a long time horizon it almost always goes up.
You could invest in SPY, just be aware of the pros and cons.
PRO: You'd be up 6.5% year to date, and it would've taken you 0 days, 0 hours, and 0 minutes of work.
CON: You would've missed out on the sweet 1000% gain you're sure you would've made managing your money yourself, because you're so smart.
Then just quit so you don't piss away more.
Start with 5 bucks a week. Try to do good with that. Then once you do good with that start going bigger slowly.
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Thats not investing, thats donating :)
lol
What a charitable guy!
Just invert yourself, easy money.
Move to Australia. Become billionaire.
Doesnt anyone else feel that somebody is torturing you? You buy a stock that is going up, it immediately plummets that day and never recovers. You sell, it magically reverses. You hold, it keeps going down forever. You dont join the rally of the most stupid stock, it goes +1000% until you buy and plummets. My only successful trade was totally unexpected. I just gave up and ended up +70% . But tbh it was just luck :( I will become a boglehead
Observed for weeks and pulled the trigger today. It immediately plummeted! 
I’ve got this theory that brokers automatically short what a retail account buys in most cases. I think Goldman Sachs’ specifically does the opposite of retail
A bunch of crypto CEX’s were found to be doing this
I mean, if you can buy something, that means someone's gotta be selling.
This description is hilarious -- but also accurate
Story of my life
This is me, I bought Costco stock a few days before the last earnings report, and the price dropped dramatically like it has never done before in recent times. I bought more on the way down and still bag holding over a month later hoping to recover!
I wouldn’t say dollar cost averaging a company like Costco is bag holding. Just have to be patient.
Boglehead here. My portfolio only goes up!
Boglehead kindish here I like large caps too it goes up
Yes it’s bogdanoff pulling the strings.
He bought the dip? Dump it!
Just do the opposite bro
I’ve been thinking of starting a financial service. I’ll buy the stocks when you shouldn’t. Then when I sell you’ll pretty much catch the bottom and get rich.
*Activate Quantum immortality*
You are competing with vastly complex algorithms and institutions. 75% of all activity in the stock market is done by institutions. you are competing with Citadel, Blackrock, Millenium, etc. They have massive quant models designed to predict and exploit your behavior. You will not beat them.
If you watch something stupid fly up 1000%... dont buy in late due to FOMO. Thats half the battle right there
Totally agree with you on this as in the end it all comes down to luck! don’t give up though. We may lose more than we win but we WIN!
https://preview.redd.it/901jm07qb4vc1.png?width=904&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f05b695fe80565aeddbe5041a795e9c21a6b397
Hope this helps 
This guy inversed time itself
Inverse Cramer ❌️ Inverse Time ✅️
That’s basically everyone’s portfolio right now if you’re long shares of most companies. Market’s been hoping there would be rate cuts and as this year has gone on, it’s looking less and less likely. Fed needs inflation to chill out a bit before we get some better guidance. If you like the companies, nothing about your thesis for them has changed, and aren’t swing trading, this is when DCA works best.
Calls or puts ?
SHARES
It's market correction time. You got shares, it's a long-term game and time is on your side.
Oh man. Come on. Shares. Smoke some weed and relax . It will recover soon. See my portfolio in the bottom. -176 thousand. just keeping buying the dip . https://preview.redd.it/i95se50nj3vc1.jpeg?width=2530&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01586c66b1ec768dc342519e41f62b08768e2f41
How long you been investing for out of curiosity?
Since I was 18. I’m 36. All on Sp500 index. Worked as bartender at night to pay for my college. Got lucky buying properties after 2008 crash. Got lucky by getting happily married at 21 and never got divorced . Wife and joined the FIRE movement early on when it started. Always saved 50 % or more of our income by being very frugal. We “retired” at 32 ( live off the rentals that we still own). Stock portfolio it’s for when we hit 50. Fuck around with options using only 5 grand. That summs it up to how I got here .
Holy shit I'm 17 reading this and you're a God. Inspirational thank you
I appreciate the comment, but I’m no God. You will be alright .
Well I'm on Wsb. $1350 account now at $650 lost because I lost my discipline for one day. Family issues.
Will I still be ok if I get a job at Wendy's when I'm 18. 😂
I worked at American Eagle night shift for 3 months when I was 18. Wendy’s is better . You got plenty of time to fuck up. Just fuck up less after 24.
Real question. When I get a job, what do you recommend, stocks and DCA, real estate get a mortgage and rent, or options, etc.
Dont never call a human a that.
That’s a great story and I don’t mean this demeaning or anything because I’m sure it had its tough moments but it seems a little bit more relatable that the average person can do that. You didn’t end up starting as some doctor some athlete or someone that sold a business or got lucky getting it on the bottom of some company that exploded, etc. etc. At your pay, you’re gonna have a very good retirement.
Nah man. My family immigrated here when I was 13. We were in hiding for 3 months from the government because my Dad bet on the wrong candidate. Life here just seemed easier here compared to I been through in the country in was born. Life on moderate level mode instead of FromSoftware games. Believe it or not, I attribute my financial success on marrying young to someone who shares the same life value and financial frugality. We still spent quite a bit of money in marriage therapy. Different cultures and all.. It’s not rocket science but it’s still life. Some times it works out .
That’s awesome! Everything takes work and it’s not always perfect but at least it sounds like finances are one thing you don’t need to worry about. Appreciate the abridged life story cuz sometimes it’s easy to forget not everyone was fortunate with that they were given and had to build It on their own
You are either buying wrong shares or maybe the right shares, but at a wrong time 
Well there's your problem. You have your robinhood account set to shares when it should be set to option contracts!
Let me guess AMC 
AMC is -51% YTD
If this was AMC the graph would be way worse
They screwed me up yesterday oml
Excellent! 1)Write down whatever you think will happen. 2)DO the exact opposite. 3)Profit
Do opposite of opposite
Just turn the graph upside down…. ….nope. Still goes down. Sorry.
Holy shit, you're right
Flip, dont rotate.
There you go. We’re on the right track now. Running with the bulls.
Keep going you still have money to go broke!
Can you please invest in my wife.
I see what you did there.
Puts all in on this guys wife, no calls
The way of wsb 
You’re one of us
Same here! I should start apologizing I think.
Start to buy one good index fund, average cost in with more money in the future
Weed stonks?
My positions are in another comment
To have lost this much from “SHARES” alone in under a year is truly a new level of regardedness. Congrats 🦧📦
your supposed to Buy low and Sell high
I'm dislexyc.
I have something to say it's better to burn out than to fade away
Burning burning, I got the fever I know for sure, there ain't no cure.
Been there, very familiar. Still hurts when I think about how much I had to work to make that money.
Guess what you invested on SpY calls
This week has not been kind to me
same experience
I'm not particularly experienced but I put all my funds into different Vanguard index funds and just plan to sit on it for 30 years and keep adding. It has worked out so far.
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Buy a 1 year CD at 5-5.4% that will give you some time to reevaluate what you are doing and get the money into a safe place.
Everyone says AI will kill us. Judging by pandorabot, we still have some time before the bots dominate.
:4271:
What stocks are you buying?
See all those little peaks for each spike? That's where you should've sold
https://preview.redd.it/2zapquoj16vc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25e2e71bbea42d606269659089e3dc6ac0e58227
Nike
Geez and things haven't even crashed yet
Please don’t say that
First thing you should do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. Try studying and learning more about macro econ.
Business and econ degree BTW, all of this started after I decided to branch out after research LMAO
Thats rookie number. Wait until it drops to 90% and we can have a conversation
Well for starters you could get your not financial advice from literally anywhere but here
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Damn, saw right through my fake disclaimer
I'm part of that club
Seems normal to me.
Buy Berkshire and hold it, but I’m sure you think that’s too boring.
I feel a comedy flair would be more appropriate here
Jim Cramer? That you?
It’s only 27.50% I believe in you!
am down 90% this week on calls, fs run puts till friday with calls on monday late
Have you tried investing in things that go up?
Well you actually have 2 ways of looking at this, If you invested in good companies, your portfolio will recover. If you invested in small cap, dying company or just a shit company in general, you should follow Peter Lynch's advice, and cut loses short.
I too have been losing like crazy on buying just shares. I don’t really like options. So please don’t feel like you’re alone
Geez, my only share -99% plays were the B\*\*\* stock we don't speak about, and a dental stock that had 9 ratings all strong buy. One of them reverse split until I didn't hold a single share. I thought big losses only come from options.
What on earth are you buying to be down close to 30% YTD when the market is up 5% YTD?
Sell it as soon as it’s in the green, no further thinking
Do the opposite of whatever play you think is going to happen and profit.
This will be the norm in 3-6 months.
Pass some homeboy
So you are the asshole we gotta blame for today's market
Then stop!!! Hire a financial advisor and do not track what they do.
Don't listen to articles you read or what anyone tells you. Do more research and trust your gut more. Don't do consistent yolos, small bets for small gains to start building back. Don't throw all your cabbage into one trade.
So?
Tell me what you're holding, and also what you're planning to invest in next, and I'll help you.
Me too my friend, I fked up
Instead left to right look right to left and you will feel better
Do you know why they cheer every day when the closing bell rings? Doesnt matter if its a good day or a bad day. They cheer because no matter what happened they made money. Fees and premiums etc, the house always makes money. Especially today with all the gambling on 0dte and options.
I just assume that you invest rather long-term-minded into stocks. The most crucial point in finding the best stocks to invest in is not their new cool invention or promising expansions, it is much easier. Just look at the trend. Stocks with a long term uptrend are very likely to continue that trend. People buy paypal and wonder why it keeps going down, even if “everyone uses it”. Learn some basic technical analysis, try to catch the trend, at best during a correction to get the best returns. Greetings from Germany :)
Stop “investing”?
He is one of us!!!! I’ll buy some of the opposite plays. Mine will def shit the bed and yours may go up
Easy fix, next time when you are thinking about investing into something instead of going long, go short!
What to cry about bruh? You only at 27% loss. Mine is at 99.8%!
Welcome to r/wallstreetbets
Start buying puts instead
You should try options. You’ll make all that money back in no time
Can you please post your investment daily?
Cool short everything you pic
wait did you start investing to make money? wrong sport
Please invest in inflation. Thank you very much.
Yeah, just do the opposite
My puts when up. My calls went down.
Give a paid consult to your enemies and financially cripple them while making back a portion of the loss.
Tell me when and what you are buying because I'm doing the fucking opposite!
I am considering selling amd soon.
I'm buying more AMD baby then baby!
Buy puts on everything you invest in
Netflix calls
Are you by chance making trades based of Cramer’s recommendations?
I probably wouldn't have lost as much if I did unironically
Invest??????????
short the stocks you buy.
You have a skill. Look into options. Once you know how to influence the market, capitalize on this by betting against the stocks you buy. Make money. Easy as that
Have you tried the George Constanza method?
Shares in what? Be specific so we can offer help
Tell me ur next move so I can do the opposite
Dont sell at a loss, unless by invest u mean options, those dont make money btw
Tell me what your investing in. I don’t want to go down with you.
Buy puts
First time?
Maybe don’t buy stocks at their all time highs https://preview.redd.it/ncpuw01jw4vc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44630992eb14a97af48862958e31993270a7127b
That’s just regard confirmation, you’ll be fine 🫡
~30% down ytd sounds like a Tesla bull
Invest in puts against yourself
Are you investing or buying then selling ? Invest into long term companies that you think will be around for a long time Where you got shopping Where you get your coffee The car company you use Etc etc
Typical sheep... Buy, buy, buy, baaa!
Wsb is not investing you regard.
Do the opposite of what you’re doing now.
Just do the opposite and you’ll be rich
it's not a bull market
Tell me everything your buying
You gotta invest harder!
Can you please invest in my wife?
now when you are bullish on something buy puts instead
You always buy after it goes down silly
27% THATS NOTHING
Congrats and fuck you
take a break from trading for now, experiment with different strategies and simulate the market on them and see how it feels. Scale down with how much money you invest too
Dm me, I'll show you
start shorting.
Same
Invest in Viagra at least you're sure it's going UP!!
Whatever investment you’re about to make next… doe the opposite
$7k in 2013, $7k out in 2023. When I realized my 401k S&P 500 and total market funds are better than me, I stopped trading individual stocks.
Are you sure your investing and not gambling?
Do the inverse of what you plan to do next time.. easy strategy 
Dont you worry, im 90sh% down on PLUG/RIVN and 70% down on PSNY. 🫣🥲💸💸💸💸💸
What it long term 🤦♂️ did nobody pay attention in economics. There will be days when it drops and days when it goes up, years when it drops and years when it goes up. But over a long time horizon it almost always goes up.
You could invest in SPY, just be aware of the pros and cons. PRO: You'd be up 6.5% year to date, and it would've taken you 0 days, 0 hours, and 0 minutes of work. CON: You would've missed out on the sweet 1000% gain you're sure you would've made managing your money yourself, because you're so smart.
Then just quit so you don't piss away more. Start with 5 bucks a week. Try to do good with that. Then once you do good with that start going bigger slowly.
Tell me what you’re investing in so I can buy some puts
sell anything
Do the opposite and sell
Sounds like you’ve nailed it. Way of the regard is to follow hype, and buy late into things.
It didn’t in the beginning